Change Management
Component code / course code: UF-22.2
Semester: winter / summer
ECTS credits: 2
Lecture hours per week (SWS): 2
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Rath
Language: German / English
Prerequisites:
Organisation & Leadership
Qualification objectives:
Students can use the example of a given basic problem (e.g. "How can we transform our actions from a linear economic system to a circular economy?").
- Apply different methods to analyse and synthesise the prevailing schools of thought and adopt new perspectives on an issue.
- Examine problems in the totality of the interrelated elements
- Connect the individual level with the collective system level (I and we).
- Reflect on their own role in a system
- Develop new ideas, solutions to problems creatively in teams and test them with stakeholders
- Accompanying change processes with communication.
Course contents:
The students learn and try out the different methodical forms of work independently along a basic problem.
- Theory input on the basic problem (e.g. transformation to the circular economy).
- Theory U as an awareness-based method for social change and the transformation of systems.
- Systems thinking to see the connections in every situation and the consequences of my own actions.
- Design thinking as an innovation method to generate new solutions
- Storytelling as a method to bring good ideas and prototypes, developed through Design Thinking and/or Theory U, into life and inspire us to act.
Teaching format (e.g. online/in person lecture/Seminar/Lab etc.): Seminar with lecture elements and exercise parts, text study and analysis, case study work,
group discussions, reflection phases, small group work.
Examination type: student research project
